Czech by birth but Parisian by adoption Jiří Kolář was a multifaceted and multifaceted artist. Son of a baker and a seamstress, he was born in 1914 in Protivìn, in southern Bohemia. He carries out very disparate jobs (carpenter, baker, blacksmith, waiter, railway worker) but his passion for the arts never fades.

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Red, orange, yellow, blue, green, indigo and violet are the colors of the iris. Joe Tilson, Chris Burden, Allen Jones, Victor Pasmore, Leonardo Cremonini, Jiri Kolar and Arturo Carmassi have represented one of them on each of the famous Bolaffi covers of the ’70s.

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